Awww crap - RIP Nando

Never met him in person but he was active on a number of fora I frequent and he was very knowledgeable in a wide arena of disciplines. alt.energy, electronics, hydro power, etc... Back on December 13th, he posted this:

On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 19:05:38 -0600
Nando wrote:

To those interested I would like to inform that this 18 of Dec, 2013 I
will have a triple heart bypass if everything goes right /should be back
4 weeks or so later./

Nando

Early this morning, I got this:

I have just been informed of the very sad news that our groupmember Nando has passed away on the 31st of December.

I have only known Nando from his contributions to a number of shared yahoo groups (microhydro,small-wind-home,12VDC_Power), but I always looked forward to his valuable input in all of these areas.

May his soul rest in peace.

An obituary can be found at
http://www.affoplano.com/component/obituary/?view=detail&id=341

I hope that he will live on in his contributions to the archives of these groups...

He will be sadly missed.

The obituary is a nice one -- Nando led an amazing life, one that he never talked about. Never blowing his own horn -- just like him. Raising a glass in toast.